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Tech Field Day 13

Tech Field Day 13

February 1–February 3, 2017

#TFD13

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Austin

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Presenting Sponsors

Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Andreas Lesslhumer

@Lessi001

Blogger at Running-System.com, Austrian VMUG Leader, PernixPro and five-time vExpert

Colin McNamara

@ColinMcNamara

Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies.

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Karel Novak

@NovakkKarel

Senior Virtual Infrastructure Engineer at ArrowECS Czech Republic

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

Rebecca Fitzhugh

@RebeccaFitzhugh

Rebecca is an independent consulting architect (VCDX #243) that specializes in vSphere, Horizon, and vCloud environments, along with delivering a variety of authorized VMware courses as VMware Certified Instructor (VCI).

Sean Thulin

@SThulin

Advanced Virtualization Consultant based in New England.

Teren Bryson

@SomeClown

Network, Programming, Unix Geek; Whisky Taster; Brain Hacker; Student of Everything; Cancer Survivor; Freelance Writer; Automata; PGP: https://goo.gl/49FMp9 – Coming from the aether.

Thom Greene

@ThomTalksTech

A VMware engineer with a passion for design, cloud architecture, and helping others

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Feb 1 9:30-11:30
SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Chris Erway, Chris O'Brien, Chris Paap, Kong Yang, Lee Calcote, Steve Hunt, Tom LaRock
Wednesday, Feb 1 13:00-15:00
Robin Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Deba Chatterjee, Partha Seetala, Premal Buch
Wednesday, Feb 1 15:30-17:30
Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Clint Wyckoff, Rick Vanover
Thursday, Feb 2 8:00-10:00
StorMagic Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Hans O'Sullivan, Jason Shaw, Luke Pruen
Thursday, Feb 2 10:30-12:30
Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Amrish Kapoor, Cody Hill, Roopak Parikh
Thursday, Feb 2 14:30-16:30
Dell Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Alan Brumley, Armando Acosta, Chad Dunn
Friday, Feb 3 8:00-10:00
ZeroStack Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Ajay Gulati, Steve Garrison
Friday, Feb 3 10:30-12:30
Uila Presents at Tech Field Day 13
Presenters: Chia-Chee Kuan, Roger Yao
All dates and times listed are local time in Austin, US/Central.

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


61 Links with Tag #TFD13

  1. Coverage: Application Discovery and Mapping with Uila
    • Thom Greene
    • Uila
  2. Coverage: Step by Step – Install Veeam Availability Orchestrator
    • Karel Novak
    • Veeam Software
  3. Coverage: SolarWinds, Not Just On-premises, There Is SaaS Too
    • Tech Field Day 16
    • Alastair Cooke
    • SolarWinds
  4. Coverage: Holistic full stack monitoring with Uila
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Uila
  5. Coverage: Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Uila
  6. Coverage: Uila – A view into your data center
    • Roger Lund
    • Uila
  7. Coverage: StorMagic’s SvSAN – Targeting HCI’s ROBO Sweet Spot
    • Howard Marks
    • StorMagic
  8. Coverage: Uila are Using Your Network (and some smart analytics) to Understand What’s Really Going On
    • Dan Frith
    • Uila
  9. Coverage: Half 2017 in community with VMTN, VMworld 2017 and TechFieldDay
    • Cloud Field Day 2, Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2016
    • Lino Telera
    • Dell EMC, SolarWinds, Veeam Software
  10. Coverage: Veeam Goes Hollywood, Now Has Two Agents
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Veeam Software
  11. Coverage: Pingdom of Heaven: Monitoring Cloud with SolarWinds
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • SolarWinds
  12. Coverage: Openstack made easy: Platform9
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Platform9 Systems
  13. Coverage: Robin Systems Defines Applications
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Robin Systems
  14. Coverage: Sans SAN with StorMagic
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • StorMagic
  15. Coverage: What’s New in Networking: Docker at TFD12
    • Pete Welcher
    • Docker
  16. Coverage: Step by Step – Instalace Solarwinds Virtualization Manager
    • Karel Novak
    • SolarWinds
  17. Coverage: Step by Step – Uila Monitoring – Deploy
    • Karel Novak
    • Uila
  18. Coverage: Chat with @RebeccaFitzhugh at #TFD13
    • Alastair Cooke, Rebecca Fitzhugh
  19. Coverage: Uila: Visions of the Future
    • Teren Bryson
    • Uila
  20. Coverage: Touching the physical world: Veeam Agents for Windows & Linux
    • Andreas Lesslhumer
    • Veeam Software
  21. Coverage: Platform9 Simplifies Cloud Infrastructure
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Platform9 Systems
  22. Coverage: ZeroStack Aims to be a ‘Self Driving Cloud’
    • Rebecca Fitzhugh
    • ZeroStack
  23. Coverage: An Interview with Josh @EuroBrew at #TFD13
    • Alastair Cooke, Josh De Jong
  24. Coverage: Backups are Important, Recovery is Essential
    • Thom Greene
    • Veeam Software
  25. Coverage: VxRail – One Year Later
    • Sean Thulin
    • Dell EMC
  26. Coverage: On-Premises Serverless
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Platform9 Systems
  27. Coverage: StorMagic SvSAN – Scalable Virtual HA Storage for the Masses
    • Sean Thulin
    • StorMagic
  28. Coverage: From the Beginning, Getting Started with SolarWinds
    • Alastair Cooke
    • SolarWinds
  29. Coverage: Manage hybrid cloud with Platform9 solution
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Platform9 Systems
  30. Coverage: Dell EMC: When Two Hearts Beat As One
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Dell EMC
  31. Coverage: IoT Puts On-Premises Back on the Agenda
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Robin Systems
  32. Coverage: Uila, the art of visualization
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Uila
  33. Coverage: TFD13 Recap – New Veeam Agents and VeeamON
    • Rebecca Fitzhugh
    • Veeam Software
  34. Coverage: The Road to Root Cause
    • Thom Greene
    • Uila
  35. Coverage: ZeroStack Adds Learning To Their Automated Infrastructure
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers, ZeroStack
  36. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 – personal experience, photos and many links
    • Andreas Lesslhumer
    • Tech Field Day
  37. Coverage: Time to Geek Out – Tech Field Day Veeam Style
    • Veeam Software
  38. Coverage: Robin Systems at Tech Field Day Feb 1-3, 2017
    • Robin Systems
  39. Coverage: Tech Field Day “Lucky” 13 – A Preview
    • Dell, Dell EMC
  40. Coverage: Follow Tech Field Day 13 live
    • Andrea Mauro
  41. Coverage: Deploy StorMagic datastore with vCenter
    • Andrea Mauro
    • StorMagic
  42. Coverage: Deploy StorMagic VSA with vCenter
    • Andrea Mauro
    • StorMagic
  43. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: Dell EMC
    • Thom Greene
    • Dell, Dell EMC
  44. Coverage: Who Is Going to Tech Field Day 13? These People, plus Me.
    • Alastair Cooke
  45. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: SolarWinds
    • Thom Greene
    • SolarWinds
  46. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: Robin Systems
    • Thom Greene
    • Robin Systems
  47. Coverage: I’m heading to Tech Field Day 13!
    • Sean Thulin
  48. Coverage: StorMagic virtual SAN solution for vSphere and MS Hyper-V
    • Andreas Lesslhumer
    • StorMagic
  49. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: Veeam
    • Thom Greene
    • Veeam Software
  50. Coverage: Back to Tech Field Day
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Platform9 Systems, Robin Systems, SolarWinds, StorMagic, Uila, Veeam Software, ZeroStack
  51. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: StorMagic
    • Thom Greene
    • StorMagic
  52. Coverage: Zerostack for a cloud managed datacenter
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • ZeroStack
  53. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Line-up and more #TFD13 with Veeam, Uila & more
    • Andreas Lesslhumer
  54. Coverage: ZeroStack and the Complex Cloud Conundrum
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • ZeroStack
  55. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: Uila
    • Thom Greene
    • Uila
  56. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Preview: Zerostack
    • Thom Greene
    • ZeroStack
  57. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13!
    • Thom Greene
  58. Coverage: Jedu na Tech Field Day 13! ( TFD13 ) – Co to je?
    • Karel Novak
  59. Coverage: Tech Field Day 13 Delegate!
    • Rebecca Fitzhugh
  60. Coverage: Looking Forward to 2017
    • Thom Greene
  61. Coverage: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager – not to be missed in a cloud
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • SolarWinds

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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